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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Goredho replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
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This is the tl;dr version of what I posted 😜
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Music geek mode activated. Everything is the same except the low E string, which is now D. So the chords affected are those with a root on the 6th string. Typically those are the E, G and A in guitar centric music, but the A can be easily rooted on the open 5th string so I just move that chord there, and I really only have to think about E and G if I want a chord rooted on the 6th string. So a single shape for major and a single shape for minor works for those chords: major minor So with just adding those two chord shapes, you can pretty much get by in drop-D with any song/progression. However, drop D tuning tends to really affect composition, too. The interval changed on barring the 5th and 6th string have gone from a 4th to a 5th. Which means you can just bar the lowest 3 strings and you have a power chord, which is easier to play than a power chord in standard tuning. So for composition, most things written in drop D take advantage of this. This gives a really big and heavy open D double power chord with a high 3rd: If you omit the highest note on the 1st string, you can play that double power chord anywhere on the neck and it will work in either a major or minor context. This ability to bar a power chord with the index finger on the 4th, 5th and 6th strings leaves you 3 fingers to make extensions or play melody with over the low power chord. This allows you to do things that would be very difficult in standard tuning. Like this barred F power chord on the 3rd fret -- the red box on the first 3 strings are easily accessible to your middle finger, ring finger and pinky and you can play whatever melodic lines you want up here at the same time you hold the power chord with the barred index finger. Now consider that you can slide that barred index finger power chord at appropriate intervals up and down the fretboard to play a chord progression while doing melodic things on the 1st/2nd/3rd string in that box at each stop, and you can probably imagine how this leads to a performance that's very different than if you were in standard tuning. Like, say you were playing G, C, D, G. You play those at the 5th, 10th, 12th and 5th frets with your index finger power chords vs the cowboy chords near the nut, and you are simultaneously doing melodic things in the red box at each stop with the rest of your fingers. A lot of things written in drop D use the open D power chord on the 4th/5th/6th string as a drone, almost like an Indian Raga, and you only use your fingers to play melody on the 1st and 2nd strings. You need to think about your D centric scale more horizontally than vertically with CAGED shapes. Experiment with that with a D Phrygian dominant scale played on the 5th and 6th strings and you will be making some wild, pseudo-middle eastern music.
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I hate to break it to you, but wishing people you don't know ill is kinda the new national pastime.
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This event seems to highlight an issue that will be a growing concern for this country and especially Texas. In the age of governmental downsizing and diminishing oversight and regulation, it's left up to the corporate interests to protect the public/consumers. The same corporate interests that gave you the tobacco industry coverup of the effects of smoking, mining companies making swaths of inhabited land uninhabitable, BP and the effects of the Deepwater Horizon spill and cleanup on the gulf, Boeing and the 737 Max, the NFL and its squelching of studies and research showing a link between football and CTE and 23042342389234 other real world examples where the profit motive outweighed ethics, morality and public safety. I would be surprised if once the government is pruned to an acceptable level of non-existence, tort law isn't reformed to further absolve corporate interests from any responsibility to public safety. You will need to do your due diligence on everything. There will be no safety nets, if there ever were. We are reforming government to be one of, by and for the corporations.
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Suicide by cock
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I don't doubt anything you say as being how copyright law works. I just think copyright law seems broken in this case. The song was an amalgamation of creative efforts and no one party is responsible for 100% of what the song evokes in a listener. So the logical (if not legal) outcome would have been for neither party to receive 100% of the proceeds from the song.
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Triads and inversions are a great way to understand chords and their relationships to scales on the guitar, and it’s an easy skip from their to jazz arpeggios adding the 7ths. As for alternate tunings, yeah, your fretboard knowledge may diminish, but it might make it easier to do some things. Like slide with open G tuning. I mostly stick to standard and drop D tuning where most of my fretboard knowledge stays intact. But, I use other more disruptive alternate tunings a lot for fingerpicked acoustic pieces, where you can get some really interesting things going with your left hand that would be impossible in standard tuning. Meaning, the intervals being played with an arpeggiated finger picked arp would be impossible to fret with your left hand in standard tuning. In this type of music, I’m not looking to play scale runs. I’m thinking very little about scales at all and more about arpeggiated chords and chord melody.
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Yeah, maybe my feelings are misplaced, but the Verve place the blame on the Stones, and there is no way the right decision is that the Verve get 0%. There are vocal melodies in that song developed by the Verve, there are chords that provide a harmonic context that make the string melody perceptually different chosen by the Verve, there are lyrics that are wholly those of the Verve’s. I worked out a solo acoustic instrumental arrangement for live performance and you can’t just play the same 2 bar string melody for 4 minutes or you’d rightfully get run out the room. You play the chords, you play the vocal melodies, you bring in the string melody at times. Sure those strings are a big part of the song, but two bars are not a song. Seems like the right thing would have been 50/50 or 60/40.
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Hard for me to not think of Mick Jagger and Keith Richard’s as assholes. From ChatGPT: The drama around Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve stems from their use of a sample from the Rolling Stones’ The Last Time, specifically the Andrew Oldham Orchestra‘s 1965 orchestral version—not the Stones’ original recording. Here’s the breakdown: Sample Clearance: The Verve licensed the sound recording but not the underlying composition (the Jagger/Richards melody). They argued their usage was minimal and transformative. Lawsuit: ABKCO, owned by Allen Klein (former Stones manager who controlled the rights), sued The Verve for exceeding the agreed-upon usage. The lawsuit resulted in: The Verve surrendering 100% of the song’s royalties. Jagger and Richards getting full writing credit. The Verve’s biggest hit financially benefiting the Stones’ camp. Aftermath: Richard Ashcroft, The Verve’s frontman, famously remarked it was “the best song Jagger and Richards have written in 20 years.” In 2019, Jagger and Richards finally returned the songwriting credits to Ashcroft and relinquished their claim on royalties, though it was decades too late financially. This is one of the most infamous cases of sampling rights disputes in music history.
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Anything by Public Enemy/Mob Squad. they didn’t typically sample whole songs, but made a collage from things like horn stabs and piano hits from records they owned like on “Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos” Madonna’s use of the James Brown/Clyde Stubblefield “Funky Drummer” beat was great in “Justify My Love” The looping strings on The Verve’s “Bittersweet Symphony” were sampled from an orchestral version of The Rolling Stones’ “The Last Tims” and that kept the Verve from cashing in on the song.
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Maybe reach out to the families of some other campers your daughter knows through mystic and coordinate how all your kids can wind up at the same place? Being with friends from Mystic at camp whatever might make it more palatable to your daughter.
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Ron Wyden did not kill himself.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Goredho replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Ron Burgundy?
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